ALEXANDRA HARBOLD

(she/her)

Associate Professor

Theatre

  • Associate Professor
    Theatre

BIO

Alexandra Harbold is a Salt Lake City-based theatre director, actor, dramaturg and teacher. She co-founded Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and shares artistic leadership with Robert Scott Smith and is Resident Director with Footpath Theatre Company.  Recent projects include: The Cherry Orchard (Director with Video Director Nick Dunn, University of Utah), Western Minerals & Their Origins (Co-Creator/Director, Footpath Theatre), From Code to Universe and To See Beyond Our Time (Co-Creator/Co-Director with Daniel Charon, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company), Prayer for the French Republic; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; and The Lehman Trilogy (Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company), The Post Office (Co-Director, Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival) and The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina (Footpath Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival). 

 

She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and a participant in the Solidarity Economy Learning Circles for the Theater Community. Upcoming projects include: the developmental production of Rachel Bublitz’s Hear Us Roar (University of Utah Studio Series), acting in Sunny in the Dark (Salt Lake Acting Company) and serving as dramaturg for Come From Away (Pioneer Theatre Company), directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Co-Creator/Director, Footpath Theatre and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory with UtahPresents). 


Harbold earned her undergraduate degree in Theatre at Middlebury College and her Masters in Performance Studies at the University of London Goldsmiths College. She is an Associate Professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre where she currently serves as the Theatre Studies BA program Area Head.  alexandraharbold.com
www.alexandraharbold.com
www.flyingbobcat.org

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Theatre1 Jul 2025 - present

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Adjunct Instructor
    University of Utah, Theatre16 Aug 2014 - 15 Aug 2017
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    University of Utah, Theatre16 Aug 2017 - 30 Jun 2018

DEGREES

  • MFA, Performance Studies
    Goldsmiths College University of London, Theatre Arts1995
  • BA (High Honors, magna cum laude), Theatre
    Middlebury College1994

FIELDS OF RESEARCH